Department of English

Andrea Ivanov-Craig, Ph.D., completed her dissertation on American comedic film and literature from the decades of the 30s and 40s. Since then, she has sought out the ways comedy works in film, particularly when it comingles with parody and issues of faith and healing. She has taught a variety of literature-based survey courses including American Literature to 1865, World Literature from the Renaissance, and Introduction to Literature. Ivanov-Craig has published articles about the films of Mae West and on the short fiction of Dorothy Parker. She has delivered conference papers on Mae West, comedy auteur Preston Sturges, and controversial Christian Anne Lamott. Her latest interests include the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, on whom she has publicly lectured and on whom she is currently teaching a course. In spring, she will teach the department’s course in film and literature. Ivanov-Craig has also been active in incorporating service-learning into her Freshman Writing Seminars. Students teach a brief series of lessons at local schools, adapting their learning to writing lessons appropriate for younger students.